Meengla
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Even NY Times is saying that, with the fall of Azovstal, Russia has about 500 miles of land connection / land grab from Crimea to Donbas and to Russia and that it will be very difficult for Ukraine to break that strategic connection as Russians are fortifying their positions in the southeast. Mariupol is indeed a strategic gain for Russia--enough to stop the war and negotiate. And they should. Enough of the blood shed. The world was barely coming out of the Covid pandemic trauma and now this damn war.
PS. I don't think 20,000 Russian soldiers were tied down by Azovstal as some claim; it was probably a small force around Azovstal. The destruction of Mariupol is on Zelensky's hands; Mariupol was going to fall anyway but Zelensky got carried away in some Churchillesque mindset. Such a tragedy for so many people of such a beautiful city.
PS. I don't think 20,000 Russian soldiers were tied down by Azovstal as some claim; it was probably a small force around Azovstal. The destruction of Mariupol is on Zelensky's hands; Mariupol was going to fall anyway but Zelensky got carried away in some Churchillesque mindset. Such a tragedy for so many people of such a beautiful city.